Nova Patents
US8072629B2

Print subscribed content on a mobile device

Summary by NHIP

Mobile printer content transfer

The method transfers rendered content to a mobile telecommunications device for later printing on a medium containing first linear and second two-dimensional coded data. Both data formats encode the print media identifier, with the second format additionally defining a coordinate grid.

Claim Score by NHIP

Read claim 1, the broadest

Abstract

A method of printing subscribed content on a print medium using a mobile telecommunications device, comprising the steps of: receiving, at a server, a request for the subscribed content; and, transferring the subscribed content to the mobile telecommunications device on a periodic basis; wherein, the mobile telecommunications device includes a printer module that can print the subscribed content on the print medium.

US8072629B2, drawing sheet 1
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Expired 20 April 2026, 0.4 years ago.

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7 claims: 1 independent, 6 dependent

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    Broadest claimClaim Score 41, average(NHIP)A method of printing content on a print medium, comprising the steps of:receiving, at a server, a subscription for content;rendering the content at the server or an associated server;transferring rendered content to a mobile telecommunications device on a periodic basis based upon the subscription, the rendered content being, or being contained within, an SMS, MMS or email message received by the mobile telecommunications device;storing the rendered content in the mobile telecommunications device for printing at a later time;and printing the rendered content on a printer module of the mobile telecommunications device on the print medium, the print medium including a printable surface for the printer module to print the transferred content, wherein the print medium is provided with first coded data in a first format and second coded data in a second format, the first coded data encoding first information and the second coded data encoding second information, at least some of the first information being indicative of the print media identifier, the first format being a linear pattern, at least some of the second information being indicative of the print media identifier and of a two-dimensional coordinate grid defining a plurality of coordinates on the print medium, the second format being a two-dimensional pattern.